music and technology is proggressing and improving all the time imo. cdj’s and laptop stuff is just another step forward. instead of simply mixing two tracks together you can get alot more creative which i think is a good thing!

hate to get back to the point!

where are these mixes then?

I am a total vinyl purist although I do have a CD deck, its cheap and never gets used.

I quite like the idea of Serato ro similar, but you just can’t beat a slab of vinyl on a 1210 with some decent styli for sound quality. No matter how hard you try, vinyl is a wave, digital is a pulse… you do the math!

Having said that, I have always maintained that ‘its all about the selecta’.

I have heard some awesome sets played by people who just can’t mix and I have seen dancefloors cleared by DJs with mad skills on the wheel of steel. If you can’t get a dancefloor rammed then you ain’t doing your job right, simple as.

I also dispair at the simple fact that to be a successful paid DJ you have to have better self-promotion skills than DJ skills, but the same applies in most creative professions (and to a certain extent, most professions).

I can safely say that I have never made it as a DJ (despite having the maddest, most awsome spinning skills and record collection around!!!!) because I just can’t be arsed to be a self-promoter and I don’t fancy life on the road. I love DJing and I do it all the time… in the comfort of my spare room to an audience of one! Every now and again I get to play to an audience of my friends, and if they enjoy the tunes then I have done a good job and I finish with a smile on my face =D

In all honesty, I only want to keep DJing as a hobby not a career because I really don’t want to stop enjoying it. It is my one true love and will be till the day I die. If I got paid for my hobby I reckon I’d end up getting sick of it (like every other job I have had so far).

@DaftFader 418468 wrote:

Yeah the last set at the last bangface I went to last year sometime was done by a DJ who cannot for the life of him beat match. Every tune was a stonka tho and the room was rammo and every one was havin it!

Its such a let down wen that happens coz you know if the DJ was any good it wud hav been 10 times better!

@Minghead 418453 wrote:

hate to get back to the point!

where are these mixes then?

The mixes are a lie 😉

I think we should all put some of our own mixes up see if we can encourage him that way?

@AGENT 15 419302 wrote:

The mixes are a lie 😉

I think we should all put some of our own mixes up see if we can encourage him that way?

Love to hear a mix of your’s man … can’t belive I havn’t heard one yet tbh. raaa

here’s a hard dance / techno mix of mine. i definantly don’t get it right all the time and the beatmatching is off in places but i’m practising atm. please remember to comment and pass on any opinions / advise. enjoy!

Mix 1 by bitsnpeazes on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free

😉

Here it is in all it glory http://soundcloud.com/hcn/cookhouse-carnage-or-how-not.

Remember first ever mix cd from 8+years ago

@AGENT 15 419764 wrote:

Here it is in all it glory Cookhouse CaRnAgE (Or how not to record a mix CD) by HCN on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free.

Remember first ever mix cd from 8+years ago

[SC]cookhouse-carnage-or-how-not[/SC]

@AGENT 15 419789 wrote:

Cheers buddy !

* Is waiting for an updated version now you have new CD decks. :crazy_dru

lol – vestax mixers are soo pony it’s untrue .. they just fall to pieces.

I’ve got the same mixer you’ve got, the crossfader and 2 up channles went within about a month!

@Tocooltom 418281 wrote:

I second that!
When using CDJs, ther is a certain lack of skill involved. Also you cant mix your tunes properly just by looking at the track, coz u cant see it, its on a cd. With vinyl you can see the pattern of the tune and mix your tunes together in so many ways.
Not saying CDJs are easy to mix on, but the majority of people who use em dont mix properly. I was at a BIG event in a club this weekend with 6 sound systems and they were all using CDJs (and vinyl but not much at all), i think i heard about 2 tunes mixed together for the whole 9 hours. The rest were stopped and played pretty much every time, and 3 or 4 djs managed to push the wrong RPM button on their “PHAT” pioneer CDJs that they dont know how to use properly. Pisses me off when you see DJs playing shit at events where they get paid and you know you can mix better than that and you just hav to stand and listen to them.

Anyways, a good way to get sets at parties is to do wot your doing now on this forum, and also get into music production, make your own tunes and spam record labels with “the freshest techno to see the light of day this year” or sumthing along those lines. You get the idea realy, play phat tunes, play them well, make sure people hear them, dont give up, and you will get to play out at events sooner or later.

I’m sorry ToCoolTom but I honestly don’t mean to be rude but yo clearly do not know what you are talking about when it comes to CDJ’s. I am 31 and have been DJing since I was 13, I’ve gone from belt-drive Soundlabs, to direct drive soundlabs, to 1210’2 to CDJ 100’s and to CDJ 1000’s. It’s exactly the same mixing on CDJ’s as it is on vinyl. Plain and simple no arguments, no debate. the only thing that’s “easier” is you can set the queue point wherever you like, which means no more wearing out the first two beats on your vinyl from scratching it back and forth when queuing your track up for miixng. There are cosmetic differences such as not seeing the grooves of 12″ to spot the break downs etc, but on the 1000 you have a waveform disply, so that solves tha tissue. on the lesser models, you don’t get this you just get a clock counting in / or counting out, so you just need to know your tunes (as any good DJ should) and remember where your last breakdown etc is on the record befoer mixing in your next record for example.